Der Irre Iwan

mdr 2015

Weimar detectives Kira Dorn and Lessing are called to a crime scene at City Hall. During a robbery at the city treasury, secretary Sylvia Kleinert was shot by a masked perpetrator. Soon they find evidence suggesting this was a targeted murder. When it's revealed that Sylvia had an affair with city treasurer Iwan Windisch, he becomes the focus of their investigation. Did he orchestrate the robbery and Sylvia's murder to prevent his extremely jealous wife Nicole from discovering the affair?

In their investigation, Kira Dorn and Lessing encounter Rita Eisenheim, who runs a ghost train with her husband Josef and has come to the carnival near Weimar in Rudolstadt. The allegedly missing Josef Eisenheim bears an uncanny resemblance to Iwan Windisch in a photograph – could they be the same man?

The detectives suspect the city treasurer is leading a bizarre double life. Perhaps his secretary had to die because she was blackmailing him about it. They're also searching for the money stolen during the robbery. The detectives suspect it's with Caspar Bogdanski, recently released from prison, who's hired as a chainsaw clown at Rita Eisenheim's ghost train. During their investigation, Kira and Lessing once again dive deep into Weimar's madness, and Lessing must prove to Kira in a painful way that he's man enough for the job.